People v. March
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District, County of Shasta. The prisoner, Jeptha R. March, was indicted by the grand jury of Colusi county for the murder of Hamilton Timmons, and was convicted of the crime. He took an appeal to this Court, and the judgment of the Court below was reversed, and a new trial ordered on the ground of error in the ruling of the Court below upon an objection to a juror.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District, County of Shasta. The prisoner, Jeptha R. March, was indicted by the grand jury of Colusi county for the murder of Hamilton Timmons, and was convicted of the crime. He took an appeal to this Court, and the judgment of the Court below was reversed, and a new trial ordered on the ground of error in the ruling of the Court below upon an objection to a juror. After the remittitur had been filed in the Court below, on motion The Court below instructed the jury that “ when a killing has been proved, the law will imply malice, and it…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by Mr. Justice Terry.
Mr. Justice Heydenfeldt concurred.
The appellant was convicted by the District Court of Shasta county of the crime of murder, in 1855; an appeal was taken, and the judgment of the Court below was reversed, and a new trial ordered. After the remittitur had been filed in the Court below, the indictment under which the conviction was had was, on motion of the District Attorney, set aside, because of certain irregularities in the summoning and empanneling the grand jury which found it. A pew indictment'having been found by a subsequent…
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